How to format your references using the Case Studies in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Case Studies in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

J.K. Vanclay, The effectiveness of parks, Science 293 (2001) 1007.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.J. Merritt, K.W. Dixon, Conservation. Restoration seed banks--a matter of scale, Science 332 (2011) 424–425.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P.J. Applegate, T.V. Lowell, R.B. Alley, Comment on “Absence of cooling in New Zealand and the adjacent ocean during the Younger Dryas chronozone,” Science 320 (2008) 746; author reply 746.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Suzuki, T. Shuto, T. Sato, M. Kaneko, T. Takada, M.A. Suico, D.M. Cyr, H. Suzuki, H. Kai, Inhibition of post-translational N-glycosylation by HRD1 that controls the fate of ABCG5/8 transporter, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4258.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

B. Dimond, Legal Aspects of Occupational Therapy, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

T.D. Oswalt, L.M. French, P. Kalas, eds., Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems: Volume 3: Solar and Stellar Planetary Systems, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Wang, X. Ding, R.H. Deng, F. Bao, Private Information Retrieval Using Trusted Hardware, in: D. Gollmann, J. Meier, A. Sabelfeld (Eds.), Computer Security – ESORICS 2006: 11th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Hamburg, Germany, September 18-20, 2006. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006: pp. 49–64.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Case Studies in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Ultra-Stable Perovskite Cells Signal Dawn Of A Solar Age, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/ultra-stable-perovskite-cells-signal-dawn-of-a-solar-age/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Space Transportation System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1974.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Ng, Exploring the perceptions of health care leaders: Colorectal cancer screening barriers among Chinese Canadian women, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2012.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

M. Powell, An Athlete of His Time, Painted as a Top Villain, New York Times (2017) B8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Case Studies in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
ISSN (print)	2351-9886
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